President Obama says he’s going to enact what I call “Big Amnesty,” by granting a nominally temporary but in fact politically-impossible-to-alter amnesty-like status to many millions of illegal aliens. He will enact this entirely by an Executive Order that mandates the selective non-enforcement of the law on the books. After the election, of course.

Back in August, when this proposal was first floated, Ross Douthat discussed how radical, anti-democratic, and blatantly unconstitutional this action would be, Eric Posner defended the proposal in response, and Douthat replied, pretty devastatingly, I think. At that time it appeared Obama might be talking of this to court impeachment action by Republican representatives, but this did not occur, and in September he said he would not take the action until after the election. Make no mistake—if Obama does anything along the lines of what he floated in August, and there have been no denials that that is what he intends, he will be taking executive constitutional violation to the nuclear level. And while agents will presumably obey, it will be nonetheless as absurd as the Supreme Court issuing an order to the Air Force to go bomb such-and-such a nation. The Constitution no more gives the supreme officers of the judicial branch authority to do that than it gives the chief of the executive branch authority to enact this amnesty. The power to enact his own de facto legislation is not there, and his proposed order will frontally violate the take-care clause that is.

Now again, Obama has repeatedly promised amnesty-favoring activists and politicians that he’ll do this, and the day after the election is getting close.

But why should I wait? Today’s my birthday.

Therefore, by the power nowhere vested in me by any document, and therefore with just as much authority as the President has to suspend the enforcement of our immigration law, I, Carl Eric Scott, hereby declare myself Honorary Poo-Bah of the United States of America. Forthwith, ten million dollars from the Treasury shall be sent to my bank account annually, and the structure sketched below as “Bongo’s Dream House” shall be constructed on designated California beach-front property for my exclusive use.

Federal construction guys, get crackin’! I have so ordered.